Indian Fairy Tales, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17, sentence 88

Then he went away further into the country, until he came to a grain merchant of the country, who asked him who he was. "

Who acts: moon · What happens: go away, come, ask, be · To what, where: country, moon · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Demon With Matted Hair " 196, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (moon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 went	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	further	further	ADV	_	8 country	advmod
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 country	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 country	det
8	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 came	punct
10	until	until	SCONJ	_	12 came	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 came	nsubj
12	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	16 merchant	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 merchant	det
15	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 merchant	compound
16	merchant	merchant	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 asked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 country	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 country	det
19	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 merchant	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 asked	punct
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 asked	nsubj
22	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 came	parataxis
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 asked	iobj
24	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 was	nsubj
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 was	nsubj
26	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 asked	ccomp
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
28	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	moon		the country	then	away property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into country=Initial_Location
2	come	past	moon					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	ask speech: ask	past		moon			to a grain merchant of the country	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
4	be	past						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «Indian Fairy Tales» by Joseph Jacobs, Project Gutenberg book 7128 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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